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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: "I Met A Girl" / Will Dockery
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 21:25:50 +0000
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On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 23:52:48 +0000, HarryLime wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 21:31:27 +0000, Will Dockery wrote:
>
>> (Moved from another thread discussion with Harry Lime for context):
>>
>>>>> >> I Met A Girl
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> I met a girl
>>>>> >> she came from California.
>>>>> >> It was in a dream
>>>>> >> we knew each other instantly.
>>>>> >> She was a little freckled girl
>>>>> >> from out of
>>>>> >> my high school past.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> And she looked up at me
>>>>> >> and talked real spacey.
>>>>> >> I've forgotten her name
>>>>> >> though she told it to me twice.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> We talked
>>>>> >> a really detached situation.
>>>>> >> She said years ago
>>>>> >> I was so shy
>>>>> >> she thought I was gay.
>>>>> >> At this point I kissed her
>>>>> >> and put my finger to her hole.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> And she looked up at me
>>>>> >> and talked real spacey.
>>>>> >> I have forgotten her name
>>>>> >> though she told it to me twice.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> I don't know why it was
>>>>> >> that I would think of her.
>>>>> >> I made a couple of puns
>>>>> >> about her name that made me blush.
>>>>> >> But her softness in tone
>>>>> >> made me feel all right.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> All I want to do
>>>>> >> is get in contact.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> -Will Dockery / May 8 1982
>>
>> On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 20:41:00 +0000, HarryLime wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 20:19:16 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:26:07 +0000, HarryLime wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:01:58 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:57:47 +0000, HarryLime wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:52:31 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 17:37:05 +0000, HarryLime wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 16:56:07 +0000, Will Dockery wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 14:18:07 +0000, HarryLime wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Will Dockery wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:19:20 +0000, NancyGene wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Copy MID" worked fine for us.  The reason it didn't work for Will
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dockery and George Dance is that they are computer (and in other ways)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> illiterate.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I've been using computers since the 1980s and have been on Usenet (via
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mostly Google Groups) since 1998.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I am on a mobile gizmo now so that might have given me some problems
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> getting that function to work.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> With 45 years of computer experience,
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> How long have you been using computers, Nancy Gene?
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> It seems anyone who has been alive for the past 45 years should have had
>>>>>>>>>>>> computer experience.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Post-editing someone xxxxxxxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I'll remember that the next time you post edit me, Pendragon.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I've no need to post-edit you
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> You post edited my poem recently.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Karma Bombs???
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That "re-edit" was from 10 years ago -- and it was a parody.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No, in talking about your post-edit of "I Met A Girl."
>>>>>
>>>>> That's different scenario.  I paraphrased
>>>>
>>>> You post-edited it, whether you admit it or not.
>>>>
>>>> And so it goes.
>>>
>>>
>>> I did not change your poem *without acknowledging the change,* then go
>>> on to critique it based on the altered version.
>>
>> Yes, you did.
>>
>> I've moved this post over to the poem in question, so we, and the
>> audience, can look at the archived evidence.
>
> I told you to post a link to the thread HERE

Okay, I'll look for it again and link to it from here.

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